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Got reminded again of my old coworker who was a massive misogynist but also trans inclusive. Told me he believed trans women are indeed women because "only women would be stupid enough to want to be women"
I wonder what he's doing now
He also aggressively corrected himself whenever he accidentally misgendered a trans guy we knew because "there's already more women than men in the world, the more numbers we steal from them, the better." Did that even when the trans guy wasn't around.
I need to point out that he was completely serious btw. This man had no sense of humor if he tried.
He was a cook at the restaurant/bar I was a bartender at, and almost punched a costumer once because he overheard him talking about how women belong in the kitchen. Told me he thought women should stay out of kitchens, that cooking is a man's job and when I asked him what he thinks women should be doing, he went quiet for a moment, then proceeded to explain to me the following
"I trust a bitch to run a kitchen as much as she can run a country, they should do shit like plumbing. Or electricity. Something you can just learn to do and don't need to lead, you know?"
Apparently women are good at "fixing shit". He claimed that he doesn't trust male plumbers or electricians except if they're gay because "something most be wrong with you if you want to go fix other people's houses, that's that maternal instinct"
I have more. I studied this man like a bug
We worked in a pretty old fashioned and conservative part of my country so homophobia and similar were rampant (type of place where i once heard someone call me gay because i have light colored eyes, no joke), and the bar next to ours was popular among football fans who have a horrible reputation for good reasons.
My guy once got called gay by one of them when he was leaving work, because he just got a new haircut. I was inside and still heard him yelling at the drunk guy.
"I'll suck your fucking dick right fucking now and we'll see who's fucking gay" was a direct quote, iirc. Caught the drunken man off guard (as it would anyone, I think), and when he slurred something back my guy cut him off and claimed that he wouldn't get hard from sucking dick, but the guy getting his dick sucked by a man would, and they both knew it, and that's why he was too scared to reply after that
The nationalists turned the Dior controversy against the Koreans, again.
I hate how the hanfu movement became this racist nationalist movement, at first it was an anti-westernization, cultural revival movement which were full of young adults who were raised with old Wuxia/ Xianxia films. The movement was about reviving Han culture, and finding pride in being chinese as most global South nations are starting to question the global North soft power propaganda searching our own identity and reconciling with our past.
But now the movement became tainted with a disgusting hatred to Koreans, Vietnamese, Manchurians and even sometimes Japanese.
I understand that some Koreans may have a bad understanding of pre-Joseon hanbok and were really stealing designs from hanfu brands, we need to call-out the cultural appropriation done by them.
But historically speaking hanfu, old hanbok, old vient phuc and old kimono were similar looking, it is like a Spaniard, a Portuguese and an Italian fighting over the ownership of Roman toga or old court fashion. BTW, the Spanish and the Portuguese have the same rights as an Italian to wear a toga, because their ancestors wore them.
China was the main power and most countries followed hanfu, and yes, this gives Koreans, Vietnamese and Japanese the rights to wear old style hanbok, viet phuc and Wafuku that looked like hanfu, our ancestors wanted their neighbours to wear our fashion, why are we angry then? Your feelings won't change the fact that viet phuc and hanbok were similar looking to hanfu.
Just because some Koreans have weird theories over Korea being 8 thousand years old gives you the right to call every Korean slurs? And calling Vietnamese slurs that historically we Chinese used based on racial superiorty?
I am proud of being Han, I am proud of Hanfu, but using the Dior controversy to just being racist to Koreans despite Koreans only participating in the exterior design, interior design and some outfits of the new Dior shop in Seoul, twitter were filled of some accusing them of stealing and being - insert disgusting slurs-
Hating all the East Asian cultural sphere countries will not help hanfu.
We need to call-out designers instead of accusing their race.
This is also for the Koreans and Vietnamese who have no rights to laugh at our horrific WW2 and Mao era historic tragedies, you have no rights to laugh at people's tragedies ignore those sad trolls and move on.
I blame the media of SK, Vietnam and China for trying to provoke meaningless fights just to create more nationalism, I am very critical of Europeans but at least the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Greeks and the Italians know they are culturally siblings and their culture will have similarities, despite that, they still somehow respect the country's ownership.
I am glad we are standing out against Dior, this is good, we should encourage non Chinese to wear hanfu giving us credit.
I am glad most hanfu blogs here are respectful, unfortunately Twitter is not the same and me telling them to stop calling x nationality slurs makes me a CIA bot.
White ppl dni, just reblog, I don't need your opinion about this issue, your opinion is not needed here. Because you will turn this rant into sinophobic bulldoodooo.
Any Korean, Vietnamese or Chinese who want to start to blame the other will be blocked, be critical of yourself first before accusing others.
mmmm i don’t have the words for it right now but mayhaps.... i am a bit (just a little bit) tired of large hollywood films treating the term “asian” as only encapsulating east asians
I’m Mixed(?)
I think about it a lot— that I’m mixed, yet I don’t look very much so.
When I was younger, I knew that I was part Vietnamese, a whole quarter at that (context, that’s about as much as I am British or German). And so I suppressed that. I didn’t look Asian, so how could I possibly identify with that? My father wasn’t able to teach me anything about Vietnamese culture either, because he was adopted and brought to the US when he was 2. His adoptive family never reconnected him with his roots, and he never really got interested in it. I didn’t start remembering that part of me until middle school. I had drawn a few Vietnamese characters and appreciated Vietnam a little in that time, but that was about it. In 7th-8th grade I suppressed it even more. I remember glorifying my German side— going so far as to consider leaving “Vietnamese” out of my ethnicity on my Meet The Artist like I was ashamed of it or something. I stayed inside and avoided the sunlight, hermitting in the dark. I used to be tanner than Lee, but thanks to my lack of sunlight, I got even paler. Being malnourished didn’t help my case too much either. Since then, I’ve begun to appreciate my Vietnamese side a lot more. I get to teach my father about Vietnam, and it’s nice until we’re at a little Vietnamese restaurant. My father mentioned to the waiter that he’s ½ Vietnamese (the son of a Vietnamese woman and an American soldier during the Vietnam War) but has never eaten Viet food before, and the man just sorta scoffed. Like he didn’t believe my father or he wasn’t Vietnamese enough. He was Americanised. I remembered then that me and my father aren’t Vietnamese in the eyes of others. What that waiter saw was a stereotypically Latino-looking man and a pale, White girl. It’s really awkward being called White when you know there’s more to you than that. I get the privilege of looking entirely White and I acknowledge that, but that doesn’t change the feelings I get when that’s all I’m reduced to— a White girl and nothing more. That entire quarter of your ethnicity gets erased and you’re just labelled as a coloniser or some other term of the week online. I feel awkward whenever I want to wear my aó dài, because I’m afraid to be told I’m “appropriating Vietnamese culture” because I don’t look Vietnamese. I get told that I’m not apart of Vietnamese culture because I was born in the US and wasn’t raised with it. I’m sorry that my father’s culture was stripped away from him as a baby when he was sent to the United States and never got the chance to get it back. I’m sorry that we’re trying to reclaim our heritage and make up for all the years lost and Americanised. I’m sorry that I don’t actually know my Vietnamese family or ancestors, like I ever got the opportunity to. I’m sorry that my father was ever abandoned at that orphanage in Đà Nẵng and was found by those French nuns in 1969, War torn Vietnam. I’m sorry I had to assign my own Vietnamese name and had to learn everything myself because my father wasn’t able to. The point is though, that I’m still young and I’ve taught myself these cultural things and I’m teaching my father like his mother couldn’t for him. We’re reconnecting these severed ties together. Another thing is that in addition to knowing that I’ll never be fully accepted as being Vietnamese, I won’t be accepted as just White either by those who are aware that I’m mixed. It’s painfully awkward when you, your brother, and your father are “the Asian ones” to your father’s adoptive family. I’m hardly even accepted as mixed because I’m ¼ Asian ¾ White instead of half and half. If I’m not White and I’m not Asian and I’m not Mixed, what am I? I still don’t know, but what I do know is that it’s painful to me and my father and my brother. Society needs to rid of the concept that all Mixed people look the same.
I’m Mixed(?): a follow up some 3 years later.
i still feel a lot of the same things i felt when i wrote the initial post. but in the time that has passed, i’ve found my father’s biological family and will be meeting them for the first time in person next month. we’re all mixed ranging from 1/4 to 3/4 vietnamese and it’s comforting to know that despite the percentage difference, we still share some similar experiences. i hope i can learn more about our heritage through them since my father’s half sister was adopted in vietnam, not taken over to the united states as he was. she has also identified their mother and she’s still alive in vietnam, but does not want any connection with any of us (understandably so considering the war).
i still feel the same way i did before about wearing traditional clothing, but my cousin said she loved it when i posted wearing áo tấc so maybe i feel the teensiest bit more confident now. i love collecting and researching traditional beyond áo dài and seeing the history of my people. i may think i look awkward in it (and maybe other people do too) because i look whiter than the rest of my family. aside from the way i am coloured though, if you actually look at my features, i’m the spitting image of my half vietnamese father.
when it comes to racism and privilege, i definitely have a lot of the latter, but that doesn’t change that i’ve experienced some form of racism. “just white” people don’t get told by their parent’s adoptive family that their ancestors ate bats. they don’t get all of their features compared to east asians even though you don’t look east asian because their adoptive family can’t tell the difference between the two. they don’t get alienated as “the asian ones” by their white family. i get invalidated by white a white friend saying why do i even say i’m part vietnamese if i’m only a quarter— but that same person can say he’s part native (from what i’ve seen of his family, it’s not very recent). i posted to a subreddit dedicated to mixed asians, i got a monoracial (asian if that matters) person saying that i should learn vietnamese and the culture for my father’s sake because it is his culture that he’s entitled to but it is also not my own. i am considered shameful for not speaking vietnamese. and you know what? i do feel ashamed. i feel genuinely embarrassed and it is never going to go away. i will never be accepted by anyone other than my father’s biological family for reasons out of my control.
anyway, i’d just like to comment on my original post that 1) it was irrelevant to point out that i was malnourished. idk what i was thinking with that genuinely like how is that relevant. 2) i was never really “tanner” than my brother. i have the ability to tan the tiniest bit but i am generally around the same shade as my brother. we’re coloured pretty much the same except for our hair. i was born with some thin, musty looking dirty dishwater blonde hair and he got the denser, dark/medium brown hair. ironically enough, because i was blonde as a child my stepmother would say i was from the milkman and my father’s adoptive family would say my brother looked more “asian” than i did. however, i am the child that looks more like our father so i am convinced that these people are way too focused on colour. i am white passing, this is indisputable. you can’t just deny that i look like my father though cuz it’s definitely apparent.
A quick history of Vietnamese women’s fashion (part 1: 16th-18th century South Vietnam)
*Disclaimer: I start this series because I feel there is not enough English content about the history of Vietnamese women’s fashion on the Internet. Although very interested in this topic, I am not an academic researcher; I am only sharing my observations based on historical paintings and photographs. *
Although Vietnamese women’s fashion history itself started much earlier, this series will start with the 16th century. At that time, Vietnam was amid the Trinh – Nguyen civil war. Most of the Vietnamese place name you might be familiar with nowadays did not exist yet, and South Vietnam was called Caupchy/Cochin (交趾).
In 1590, the Spanish in the Philippines wrote Boxer Codex, a manuscript containing illustrations of ethnic groups across Asia that the Spanish has contact, and South Vietnam (Caupchy) was one among them. The Vietnamese woman is depicted as having long hair, wearing a multicolor yếm undergarment, a thường skirt secured by colorful ribbons and a đối khâm coat.
(Image source)
More specifically, this is people from Quảng Nam (廣南) province, which foreigners pronounce as ‘Canglan’
In the 1645 Japanese book “Vạn quốc nhân vật đồ” (Illustration of characters from 10,000 countries), the South Vietnamese woman clothings depicted is still structurally like that in Boxer Codex.
(Image source)
In late 17th century, South Vietnamese women started to layer viên lĩnh round collar robes instead of a đối khâm coat. It can be observed in an extract from the painting “Châu ấn thuyền Giao Chỉ độ hàng đồ quyển” (Scroll of a red seal ship at Caupchy), currently belong to the Kyushu National Museum.
(Image source)
In 1744, Lord Nguyễn Phúc Khoát, the de facto ruler of South Vietnam at that time command South Vietnamese people to change their clothings. He wanted to avoid a prophecy that after 8 generations of Nguyễn lords, Tonkin (North Vietnam) and Caupchy (South Vietnam) would be unified (although it took longer than 8 generations of Nguyễn lords, this prophecy would become true anyway). The reform is recorded in the book “Phủ biên tạp lục” written by the contemporary North Vietnamese official Lê Quý Đôn (Miscellaneous Chronicles of the Pacified Frontier, 1776). The result of this reform is similar to Vietnamese women’s fashion in the 19th century, so please wait until a later installation of this series to find out.
Coming up next, in Part 2 I will talk about North Vietnamese women fashion during this time period. In the mean time, thank you for reading and feel free to send me a question if you have any!
Áo viên lĩnh, thường & đối khâm. Later Lê dynasty style. Credit to Cổ trang Đại Việt quán.
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me:
I've seen some posts regarding the Celtic Zodiac Animals floating around, with thirteen zodiac animals given to people based on when in the year they were born. I remember you said that there is extremely little people know for sure about old Celtic culture, and most pages I got on google came from non-trustworthy sites, so I wondered if you knew if this was an actual thing or not.
*sweats nervously* in short, nope.
There is a preconception, and it’s very popular in neo-Celtic and Celtic revivalist groups, that the Celts were somehow tied to nature and the animal world by a beautiful, spiritual bond. Images of Celtic women frolicking in the fields naked and covering themselves with flowers and communing with wolves and deer are all over the damn place. Wherever you look, there are multitudes of people talking about how ‘Celts didn’t perceive a separation between man and beast’, or how ‘the Celts used a tree calendar… they were masters of astrology!!’
It may be unsurprising to hear that both these things are bullshit.
Get these animals off my lawn
SO. Let’s tackle the Zodiac theory first and foremost. The ‘Zodiac animal’ theory, showing 13 animals and giving them a corresponding period in the year, was developed largely by Helena Paterson, in this book here.
(This is also a pretty good time to say this - just because a book is listed in the Mythology / Anthropology / Folklore section of Amazon, doesn’t mean it’s reliable!!)
Let’s see what else this Llewellyn Publications is responsible for, shall we?
Oh.
Oh gosh.
Oh my. This whole Celtic Zodiac theory seems to have debunked itself, to be honest with you. I mean, when you’re putting ‘Celtic’ astrology on the same listicle as UFO and alien encounters, it must be super authentic, right? (PS there is actually a very very interesting theory about alien abduction and Celtic theories of the Otherworld - it’s unrelated to the astrology topic, but if you’re interested, you can find an article on it here!)
Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Most common notions of Celtic astrology are based on Robert Graves’ theory of a Tree calendar. Now, those of you who are familiar with Robert Graves might be thinking ‘but that famous Classicist dude doesn’t even go here!’ and you would be 100% right, because Graves does not go here. Unfortunately, he does linger outside the gates a lot, sighing irritably and wishing he had club membership. Graves had a real tendency to use things that he actually knew about - the Classics - to try and extrapolate theories about things he didn’t know about. This is a bit of a dangerous thing to do, because his reputation as an actual Classicist unfortunately lends credence to his bullshit about Celtic studies - and yes, it really is all bullshit.
Graves’ methodology was essentially to look at Celtic ideas, find a point of similarity with Classical ideas, and dig a huge hole into it until the two ideas were linked by some kind of dirt tunnel. Thanks to this methodology, we have his book The White Goddess to blame for his alarmingly popular theory about an Ancient Goddess, which caught on in a Very Big Way and makes studying the truth incredibly difficult, because his almost utopian ideas are often a little more intriguing than the facts. I’ve written more about that here, but in short, it’s not possible to use one culture as a template for another. You can’t fill in the blanks about one society by looking at another. Societies are not the same. Ideas are not necessarily transferable.
Anyway, without going into boring detail, Graves used the (unproven) idea that the Celtic alphabet was based on Greek and Latin, and reconstructed a ‘calendar’ from a battle image. There is a very thorough debunking of Graves’ ‘Tree calendar’ idea here, written by actual Celticist Peter Berresford-Ellis, which goes into detail about how he made it up - even asking a world-renowned Celticist whether or not his theory was possible, and ignoring him when he was told that it wasn’t. Nice.
To cut a (very) long story short, after Graves came a whole bunch of thoroughly wank zodiacs, one of which was Paterson’s - they’re all debunked very nicely here by Celticist Joseph Monard and iconographist Michel-Gérald Boutet, and summed up with the caustic ‘In this light, this book can only please the fringe romantics and the misinformed of the Neo-pagan, New-Age and Neo-druidical circles.’ Ouch.
The actual thing
The best idea that we actually have of any Celtic calendar is the Coligny calendar. Warning: it looks like this:
Not something that you’d want to hang up in your office. The calendar was found in Gaul (now France) and is written in Latin and Gaulish, dating from the 2nd century AD. The extent to which this calendar applied across the Celtic world is completely open to speculation; Ireland and Gaul are not exactly next-door neighbours, so it would be a bit specious to assume that they all followed the same calendar. That doesn’t mean that they didn’t, but it’s important to be aware that we’re dealing with conjecture here!
From this calendar, the structure of a five year cycle has been reconstructed - even though it looks like a shitty jigsaw puzzle that you’d give to your worst enemy, it has a repetitive pattern, so it’s been possible to reconstruct it on that basis. Monard, one of the authors of that previous article, has theorised a possible zodiac based on the Coligny calendar, which has the benefit of being based on, y’know, an actual calendar, which the other theories are not. His reconstruction is listed at the bottom of the article.
Beyond that, we don’t know. We don’t have a surviving Celtic zodiac, because not all of the writing of the time - the little that survives - has been translated, and most of it is from secondary or later sources. We don’t have anything that says ‘hey, if you were born in this year, then you’re a cat!’ or ‘if you were born under this type of moon, you’re a wolf!’ or even ‘if you were born on the sixth Saturday of the fifth month in the fourth year of the calendar, then you’re half snail and half antelope!’ - anything that claims to be the definitive ‘Celtic calendar / zodiac’ is lying through its teeth, because we don’t have a definitive Celtic calendar / zodiac.
But that’s not pretty
One general rule of thumb when you’re looking at anything online that’s touted as ‘Celtic’ is to follow this handy checklist.
is it accompanied by any of the following terms or similar: ‘Celts were notoriously in tune with nature and basically grew dandelions out of their armpits’; ‘Celtic women were well-known as being free and unchained and basically spent all day frolicking naked in fields’; ‘Celts saw animals as people and were probably all vegan because they loved animals so much and gave them the vote’; ‘Celts were masters of the sky, and honestly, if spaceships had been invented back then, we’d be all the way to Pluto right now’?Anything that is supposedly ‘Celtic’ but reinforces the idea that Celts lived in total symbiosis with nature, had an egalitarian society, or were all amateur astronomers - that’s total wank, basically. It’s based on an idea that I quite like to term the ‘noble barbarian’, which actually relates to the Romans’ crush on the Celts and other ‘barbarian’ tribes, but really fits in with a lot of modern thinking about them as well. Essentially, modern Western people love to look back at any tribal society and say ‘gosh, look how naive and simple their lives were! How cute. They liked trees and everything. If only we could go back to that utopian age. War would cease to exist. Capitalism would die a death. Trump would never win. Those tribes really got it right’. Subsequently, the culture is turned into a cutesie bunnies-and-puppies simulacrum of its actuality. Indigenous tribes, particularly those of America, suffer from this Western fetishisation as well - look at any music festival. So, any Celtic, Native or otherwise tribal ‘calendar’ which is based on puppies and seahorses and the idea that people and animals were best buds and lived in fields of primroses together is probably wank. Soz.
does it claim to be ‘the Celtic zodiac’? Because that’s easily debunkable - there is no surviving Celtic zodiac, and everything is speculation. Easy peasy.
does it name the months after trees? It’s a Graves-type calendar, and it’s wank.
does it name the months after non-Celtic deities (e.g. Paterson’s names one of them after Persephone)? It’s based on interpretatio graeco / romana, the idea that Celtic culture was just lifted from a template of Classical culture, and it’s completely inaccurate. This methodology is a load of old cat poo. Celtic deities functioned differently to Classical deities, and they weren’t just carbon copies with Celtic names.
does it include animals that wouldn’t have been native to any Celtic region? I shouldn’t even have to say why this is a red flag, but I’ve seen some ‘Celtic zodiacs’ with lions as one of the months. No no no no. No. Please no.
I have to catch a bus now (I’m late oh no) but yes. No, basically.
Sources:
Boutet, Michel-Gérald. “Celtic Astrology: A modern Hoax”
Ellis, Peter Berresford. “The Fabrication of ‘Celtic’ Astrology.”
Monard, Joseph (1996). About the Coligny Calendar.